Abstract: Scholarship from the nascent subfield of Indigenous politics illuminates an enduring tension between Indigenous politics and political science. Settler colonialism continues to configure the contemporary politics of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia in profound ways that political science has been slow to grapple with. In a related concern, political science has […]

Abstract: Throughout the Swan River colony’s foundational years, in another sphere of empire, British slavery was gradually being dismantled. This article links these two discrete processes through the biographical case studies of six early emigrants to the Swan River colony with connections to British slavery. Through an exploration of their aspirations and attempts to seek […]

Abstract: Contemporary discourses of net-zero decarbonization (also referred to as carbon neutrality) routinely overlook the landscape transformations required to offset carbon emissions. Conventional analyses also often fail to engage with decarbonization as an inherently spatial process, embedded in landscapes in which the biophysical, socionatural, and political economic dimensions of energy intersect. This creates a conceptual […]

Abstract: In February 2024, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a plan for the “postwar” Gaza Strip that envisions Israel’s military as unilaterally and indefinitely patrolling the enclave while an unnamed third party runs the local government. While even allies like the United States criticized this scheme, Palestine has never enjoyed autonomy as a state, and […]

Abstract: The colonial relationship between Indigenous people and people of European origin has been characterized by conflicts, economic exclusions, and epistemological discriminations as well as the mutual sharing of knowledge, practices, and technologies. In many cases, the industrial development of space technologies such as telescopes and rocket test sites has continued the exploitative nature of […]

Description: This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis. Contributors from cross-cultural communities, including Indigenous, settlers, immigrants, and refugee communities, discuss why ILK and practice hold great potential for tackling our current environmental crises, particularly addressing the settler colonialism that contributes towards the […]

Abstract: “Nations Taking Place: Unsettling Geographies in Indigenous and American Literatures” considers the resistant, political, and affective power of geographic discourse in North America produced in the decades before and after the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830—that is, roughly between the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War (the late 1760s) and the […]

Abstract: This thesis project investigates the historical trajectory and contemporary implications of colonial environmental destruction on the Navajo reservation in North America, focusing specifically on the detrimental effects of uranium mining. Three central research questions guide this inquiry: (1) What is the historical context of colonial environmental destruction on the Navajo reservation? (2) How has […]

Description: Great Plains Homesteaders tells the epic story of how millions of people, white and Black, women and men, young and old, and of many different religions, languages, and ethnic groups, moved to the Great Plains to claim land. Most were poor, so the government’s offer of “free” farms through the Homestead Act of 1862 seemed […]

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between Australia’s Indigenous and settler colonial systems of democracy through the lens of deliberative systems theory. It suggests that the ongoing effects of colonialism have rendered Indigenous democracy largely invisible causing a harmful divide in Australia’s democracies. A pluralist conception of democracy is necessary to understand the disconnect between […]